Florida Senate - 2014 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 742
Ì646294BÎ646294
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
04/09/2014 .
.
.
.
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
1 Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
2
3 Between lines 50 and 51
4 insert:
5 (7) Under no circumstances may any Medication may not be
6 administered closer than 24 hours before prior to the officially
7 scheduled post time of a race except as provided for in this
8 section.
9 (a) Furosemide is the only medication that may be
10 administered within 24 hours before the officially scheduled
11 post time. However, furosemide may not be administered within 4
12 hours before the officially scheduled race time. The division
13 shall adopt rules setting conditions for the use of furosemide
14 to treat exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage.
15 (b) The division shall adopt rules setting conditions for
16 the use of prednisolone sodium succinate, but under no
17 circumstances may furosemide or prednisolone sodium succinate be
18 administered closer than 4 hours prior to the officially
19 scheduled post time for the race.
20 (c) Before January 1, 2015, the division shall adopt rules
21 that establish the definitions of prohibited substances and the
22 setting conditions for the use of controlled therapeutic
23 medications. Controlled therapeutic medications may include only
24 the specific medications and concentrations allowed in
25 biological samples that have been approved by the Association of
26 Racing Commissioners International, Inc., as controlled
27 therapeutic medications phenylbutazone and synthetic
28 corticosteroids; in no case, except as provided in paragraph
29 (b), shall these substances be given closer than 24 hours prior
30 to the officially scheduled post time of a race. Oral
31 corticosteroids are prohibited except when prescribed by a
32 licensed veterinarian and reported to the division on forms
33 prescribed by the division.
34 (c)(d) Nothing in This section does not shall be
35 interpreted to prohibit the use of vitamins, minerals, or
36 naturally occurring substances if they do not exceed so long as
37 none exceeds the normal physiological concentration in a race
38 day specimen.
39 (e) The division may, by rule, establish acceptable levels
40 of permitted medications and shall select the appropriate
41 biological specimens by which the administration of permitted
42 medication is monitored.
43 (8)(a) Under no circumstances may any medication be
44 administered within 24 hours before the officially scheduled
45 post time of the race except as provided in this section.
46 (b) As an exception to this section, if the division first
47 determines that the use of furosemide, phenylbutazone, or
48 prednisolone sodium succinate in horses is in the best interest
49 of racing, the division may adopt rules allowing such use. Any
50 rules allowing the use of furosemide, phenylbutazone, or
51 prednisolone sodium succinate in racing must set the conditions
52 for such use. Under no circumstances may a rule be adopted which
53 allows the administration of furosemide or prednisolone sodium
54 succinate within 4 hours before the officially scheduled post
55 time for the race. Under no circumstances may a rule be adopted
56 which allows the administration of phenylbutazone or any other
57 synthetic corticosteroid within 24 hours before the officially
58 scheduled post time for the race. Any administration of
59 synthetic corticosteroids is limited to parenteral routes. Oral
60 administration of synthetic corticosteroids is expressly
61 prohibited. If this paragraph is unconstitutional, it is
62 severable from the remainder of this section.
63 (c) The division shall, by rule, establish acceptable
64 levels of permitted medications and shall select the appropriate
65 biological specimen by which the administration of permitted
66 medications is monitored.
67 (8)(9)(a) The division may conduct a postmortem examination
68 of any animal that is injured at a permitted racetrack while in
69 training or in competition and that subsequently expires or is
70 destroyed. The division may conduct a postmortem examination of
71 any animal that expires while housed at a permitted racetrack,
72 association compound, or licensed kennel or farm. Trainers and
73 owners must shall be requested to comply with this paragraph as
74 a condition of licensure.
75 (b) The division may take possession of the animal upon
76 death for postmortem examination. The division may submit blood,
77 urine, other bodily fluid specimens, or other tissue specimens
78 collected during a postmortem examination for testing by the
79 division laboratory or its designee. Upon completion of the
80 postmortem examination, the carcass must be returned to the
81 owner or disposed of at the owner’s option.
82 (9)(10) The presence of a prohibited substance in an
83 animal, found by the division laboratory in a bodily fluid
84 specimen collected after the race or during the postmortem
85 examination of the animal, which breaks down during a race
86 constitutes a violation of this section.
87 (10)(11) The cost of postmortem examinations, testing, and
88 disposal must be borne by the division.
89 (11)(12) The division shall adopt rules, laboratory
90 standards, and penalties to implement this section. The rules
91 may include a classification system for prohibited substances
92 and a corresponding penalty schedule for violations.
93 (12)(13) Except as specifically modified by statute or by
94 rules of the division, The most recent Uniform Classification
95 Guidelines for Foreign Substances, revised February 14, 1995, as
96 promulgated by the Association of Racing Commissioners
97 International, Inc., is hereby adopted by reference as the
98 uniform classification system for class IV and V medications.
99 (14) The division shall utilize only the thin layer
100 chromatography (TLC) screening process to test for the presence
101 of class IV and V medications in samples taken from racehorses
102 except when thresholds of a class IV or class V medication have
103 been established and are enforced by rule. Once a sample has
104 been identified as suspicious for a class IV or class V
105 medication by the TLC screening process, the sample will be sent
106 for confirmation by and through additional testing methods. All
107 other medications not classified by rule as a class IV or class
108 V agent shall be subject to all forms of testing available to
109 the division.
110 (15) The division may implement by rule medication levels
111 recommended by the University of Florida College of Veterinary
112 Medicine developed pursuant to an agreement between the Division
113 of Pari-mutuel Wagering and the University of Florida College of
114 Veterinary Medicine. The University of Florida College of
115 Veterinary Medicine may provide written notification to the
116 division that it has completed research or review on a
117 particular drug pursuant to the agreement and when the College
118 of Veterinary Medicine has completed a final report of its
119 findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the division.
120 (13)(16) The testing medium for phenylbutazone in horses
121 shall be serum, and the division may collect up to six full 15
122 milliliter blood tubes for each horse being sampled.
123
124 ====== D I R E C T O R Y C L A U S E A M E N D M E N T ======
125 And the directory clause is amended as follows:
126 Delete lines 13 - 14
127 and insert:
128 Section 1. Paragraph (f) is added to subsection (6) of section
129 550.2415, Florida Statutes, and subsections (7) through (16) of
130 that section are amended, to read:
131
132 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
133 And the title is amended as follows:
134 Delete line 8
135 and insert:
136 false statements on an injury form; revising the
137 rulemaking authority of the division; revising the
138 authorized use of certain medications and testing
139 methods; providing an